Embroidering machine



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J. GILARDONE EMBROIDERING MACHINE 'Filed Feb. 2. 192s 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 rfa Patented Feb. 5, i924..

JOSEPH C. GILARIDONE, OI READING, EENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO SOLOMON S. MILLER AND ONE-THIRD TO GEHRKE KNITIING .'MIIJLS, A COPARTNER- SHIP, BOTH 0F READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

EMBROIDERING MACHINE.

Application filed February 2, 1923.

T0 all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH C. GrLARDoNn, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, residing at Beading, in the county oi` Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in `Emhroidering Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in embroidering machines, and it pertains more particularly to machines for embroidering stockings.

Heretofore, it has been the practice, when embroidering seamless stockings, to cut the stocking for a great part of its length, to permit it to be stretched on a frame, so that both sides of the Vstocking could be embroidered, after which the cut was sewed up again.

This method is costly, and in addition, forms' a seam up the back of the stocking.

In my present invention I have devised a means of embroidering the seamless stocking without cutting it.

The invention contemplates a stocking holding frame over which the stocking is slipped, means for holding the stocking securely in position on the frame while one side is being embroidered, after which the frame is reversed, to bring the opposite side of the stocking in line with the embroidering needle. When the embroidering is completed, the stocking is slipped kfrom the frame, completed.

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a portion of the machine, showing several of the embroidering units.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view of one ot' the embroidering units, in position in the frame of the machine.

Figure 3 is a central vertical sectional view of the unit taken through Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view through 4--4 of Figure 2.

Familiarity with the general construction of embroidering machines employing the pantograph mechanism is assumed. and the details of such mechanism are not disclosed, having no bearing on the invention here involved.

Serial lo. 616,455.

I have shown only suflicient of the structure to clearly show how my present invention may be applied to machines ot thisl character, in which a large number oit arlicles, such as stockings, may be embroidered simultaneously.

The numeral 1 designates the stationary frame oft the machine, and the numeral 2 designates the shuttle frame bar, which is also stationary and which carries the shuttle frame 3. r[he numeral 4 designates the shuttle bar which carries a series oi' shuttle control posts 5. These posts are each formed with an enlarged head 6, provided with an angularly arranged slot 7, and each slot is adapted to ride on a pin 8, thus giving to each shuttle post an angular movement with relation to the vertical frame when the har 4 is actuated through any well known shuttle ybar actuating mechanism, not shown. The numeral 10 designates the shuttle slides, in which the shuttles 11 are located, and in which the upper ends of the control posts 5 are arranged to move at an angle corresponding with the angle of the slots in the posts 5. The shuttle bar 4. when the ma chine is in operation, is given a reciprocating movement in the direction indicated by the arrows A in Figure 2, so that this movement of the shuttle, in the direction indicated, will be easy and free 'from strain of any kind.

The numeral 15 designates the stocking holding frame, any number being employed, depending on the length of the machine and the number of stockings to be embroidered at one time. These 'frames are box-like bodies, with open panels at Jiront and rear, at which points the embroidering is to be done. The stockings are slipped over these frames, from above and a cap 18 is placed over the top of the frame, engaging and holding that portion of the stocking which. remains there while the body of the leg portion is drawn down over the open Jfront and rear portions.

'Io this cap I secure, at two opposite ends` pivotally mounted clamping arms 20, the lower extremities of which are engaged by hooks 21l on the lower portion of the Jframes. and these arms bear against the stocking and hold it securely in position, as against turning, on the frame.

These stocking holding frames are provided with seating pins 22 at their lower extremities, adapted to position. the trainee on the supports 2d, which supports are carried by the machine frame uprights 25, andA 26 designftes a head clamp by means of which each stocking; 'trame is held in position from vertical movement with relation to the the slides l0, which latter is located withinv each ot' the box lil/rc stocking iframes l5,

while the embroidering needles, indicated, by the nunierai 28, will be presented from` the outside of the stocking', indicated in Figure 3, and these needles will` as is usual in'such cases, be carried and actuated by the i pantograph device, not shown, but under the i means 'for embroidering the stocking on both It is evident that the details of construci tion maybe modified in many details, withi out departing from the spirit of my inven-` tion, which consists of a device inthe form; or" a stocking trame for holdinga seamlessj stocking in position to be embroidered at` two opposite points, and without first out` guidance of the operator.

ting' the stocking.

Having` thus described a simple. device for to co-act with the needle working from the carrying` out this invention, and its purposes, l do not desire to limit myself to the exact construction so described, but,

What l cla-im and desire to secure by Leti .slotted posts ride.

ters Patent is l. In a stocking' embroidering` machine, the combination oi' an embroidering mecha.- nis'm includinga. shuttle, a shuttle carrier, a

series of shuttle control posts, each post having an enlarged head provided with an angularly arranged slot and a pin on which each post may ride, with a stocking holding' frame 'comprising a hollow box-*like body (adapt-ed to receive and accommodate the `shuttle within its walls and means for actuating the embroidering mechanism and shuttle to embroider two opposite points or' the stock- .ing without removing it from the fra-me.

2. In an embroidering machine, the combination of a series ot shuttles, carried by a shuttle bar and supported on shuttle posts Carried by said ban said posts `having enlarged heads provided with angularly arranged slots, pins on which the slotted posts ride, means for conveying an angular reciprocating movement to the shuttle, a casing or frame over which a stockingl may be placed without cutting', means iior securely holding: the stocking in position on the trame, and

sides without removing the the frame;

3. The combination in a stockingI embroidering machine, of a series of stoclrino; holding 'frames each adapted to receive a stocking, means for holding'the stocking on the trame and means for embroidering` said stocking, comprising a shuttle adapted to move inside the stockingV holding frame and stocking from outside of the frame, a. shuttle bar, a series ot angularly slotted shuttle control posts carried by said bar and pins on which the ln testimony whereof l aiix my signature.

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